MAP. Toulouse: 12 new secure bike parks open in underground car parks
By Guillaume Laurent
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Good news for fans of bikein search of solutions to park their vehicles serenely at Toulouse : a new offer secure equipment for the two-wheelers landed in the Pink City! Not less than 12 “cycloparks” will be put into service in the coming weeks, by the Métropole and Indigo, inside the underground car parks operated by the company specializing in parking and individual mobility. five of them are already operational.
Five proposed cycloparks
The city center of Toulouse will therefore benefit in the coming months from a new network of secure bicycle parks. From today, cyclopark of the five (a total of 326 secure locations) are already available in car parks Esquirol (100 secure places, including 5 with charging stations for pedelecs, and 36 free places), Carmelites (60 secure places, including 4 with refills for VAE, and 20 free places), Saint Etienne (66 secure places, including 4 with refills for VAE, and 24 free places), europe square (40 secure places, including 4 with refills for VAE, and 10 free places) and Saint Cyprian (60 secure places and 22 free places), all managed under public service delegation by Indigo for the City of Toulouse.
Six other cycloparks in the coming months
And this will accelerate in the coming months, since by the end of the year, six other cycloparks will be operational in the following Indigo car parks: Saint-Aubin, Saint-Michel, Carnot, Matabiau Ramblas, Marengo station and Jean Jaurès. At the end of 2022, 11 secure spaces for bicycles, i.e. 644 spaces, will therefore be available in the Indigo car parks.
Finally, a 12e and last space, will be accessible in early 2023. With its 350 secure pitches, the cycle park Capitol will be the greatest of all. Indigo and the community thus hope to “meet the strategic objectives defined by the Metropolis to develop the use of bicycles in its territory”.
MAP. Where are these 12 new secure bike parks located?
Find below the location of the 12 new cycloparks in Toulouse: in green, equipment already in service. In yellow, those that will be installed by the end of 2022. And in orange, the one that will be installed in early 2023.
Why this new equipment?
These new kind of car parks are supposed to make it possible to fight against bike theft, a scourge in Toulouse, as in many large cities in France. “46% of cyclists give up using their bike for fear of theft, a proportion that has reached 60% of those who have already been victims”, raises Indigo.
“15% of people who couldn’t ride a bicycle say they would buy one if they had a parking space. Fear of theft is a major barrier to bicycle use in the city, according to a survey carried out by the specialized design office 6t”.
While the rise in theft has been spectacular in Toulouse in recent months, this new secure parking offer therefore aims to better respond to “the new uses city dwellers”, and to reassure those who are reluctant to take the leap of two-wheeled travel.
What do you find in these cycloparks?
“Located at the first level of each parking lot, as close as possible to the accesses (entrances and exits), the Cyclopark space offers several service areas, for an optimal customer experience,” describes Indigo.
In the parking space, the operator installed “ergonomic racks and functional”, with “equipment adapted to all types of users (bicycles, cargo bikes, pedelecs, etc.)” and in most car parks, a charging system for e-bikes. But there is also, in each park, a comfort area with some lockers and banksand a workshop spaceor some small maintenance tools are made available”, with a Powerful “to facilitate the maintenance of his cycle”.
How it works ?
To use the device, you must take out a subscription online (or in store, (level -1 of the Capitole car park). The easiest way is to connect on the website fr.parkindigo.com, then select the car park of their choice, and configure their subscription by implementing the bicycle as the type of vehicle, the desired start date… By entering the code “CYCLOTOULOUSE” during the payment phase, the user receives their Access badge within three days. He can then park his bike there and benefit from the other services made available to him. On arrival: alone insignia holders of a can pass through the door allowing access to the metal grilles that encircle the secure space where the bicycles are parked.
€6 per month (and €4 the first year)
As for the prices, the subscription for the cycloparks of Toulouse is set at “€6 incl. tax per month”, and even a little less the first year.
“For the first subscription in one of the Cycloparks, the subscriber can benefit from a rate of €4 including tax per month for a maximum period of 12 months with the promo code CYCLOTOULOUSE”.
To know that if the places in these secure sites are reserved for subscribers (Indigo indicates that it “will not rent more places than subscribers”), they are not not assigned systematically. Finally, the contracted subscription is only worth renting for the park where the user has his location.
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